Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I love dreaming!

I dream in color.

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

Dreams take short cuts.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.

We are all geniuses when we dream.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

Our dreams are a second life.

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.